Posted on 03/22/2007 12:54:25 PM PDT by lonewacko_dot_com
Hoping to jump-start the debate on immigration, two lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle introduced a bill Thursday that would prop up President Bush's call for comprehensive immigration reform and mirror a Senate bill that ultimately failed last year.
Reps. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., said their legislative package includes a guest worker program that would allow new workers and current qualifying "undocumented workers" to stay in the United States and work for up to six years. The bill would specify that immigrants couldn't take jobs from U.S. workers.
The Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act of 2007 allows those who qualify to get three-year visas that could be renewed for another three-year stay. Those seeking green cards, a precursor to citizenship, would have to leave and return legally through a port of entry.
"What is reform? What Congressman Flake and I have presented, and we're supporting today, this is reform," Gutierrez, speaking in Spanish, told a reporter at a Capitol Hill press conference.
The bill also aims to improve document procedures and stiffens penalties for immigrants who commit crimes while in the United States. It requires the Department of Homeland Security to beef up border security and surveillance prior to the start of the guest worker program...
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When are these flamming idiots going to wake up and realize, reform is just the cowards way of saying AMNESTY! Our politicains are turning this country into France. GEEZE!!!!
All that fighting and dying, and now we just give the country away.
You should see Lou Dobbs today if you can. Luis Gutierrez was on touting this new bill.
Dobbs read off to him all the programs we have now for 'workers' totally about 3 million a year, then add on the million we install as new citizens, on and on.
The Rep. acted as if he had never heard these figures. Do these fools think we don't let anyone in as temp workers now, or are they just dishonest? Probably both.
Ping!
We don't need new laws! The payoffs from the drug $$$ must be enormous to make these "leaders" sell their souls and sell out America.
I already sent a letter to my Congressman.
They passed legislation to build a wall.
Get that done first!
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